Twitter says it's suspending dozens of accounts that have been pushing content in favor of Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign because the accounts were violating the platform's manipulation and spam policies.
The media giant said that these accounts violated its rules because they circulated the same copy-and-pasted content, which Twitter instituted rules against after Russia bot accounts used the same technique in 2016., which published a screenshot image that showed a number of accounts that posted the same exact tweet: “A President Is Born: Barbra Streisand sings Mike’s praises. Check out her tweet,” and then they provided a link.
“We ask that all of our deputy field organizers identify themselves as working on behalf of the Mike Bloomberg 2020 campaign on their social media accounts. Through Outvote content is shared by staffers and volunteers to their network of friends and family and was not intended to mislead anyone,” said Bloomberg spokeswoman Sabrina Singh.
This comes after Bloomberg's campaign said this week that it hired 500 deputy field organizers to conduct digital and in-person engagement. The campaign said Wednesday that these staffers are posting their own content on their own social media accounts.Maura Barrett is a 2020 campaign embed for NBC News.
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